FERNANDO LLERA 'TOONS: The Pink Panther

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

WELCOMING THE NEW YEAR 2025!

Celebrating with some of my favorite cartoon buddies:

Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner, Laurel & Hardy, the Pink Panther, Inspector Clouseau and Mobster Nick. I began my comic book career with Mobster Nick, The Pink Panther and the Road Runner, spending my days writing and drawing their stories for more than a decade. And my Laurel & Hardy caricatures were featured in six cards I created to celebrate Christmas with the Sons of The Desert film buffs society and which I sent to members from 1977 to 1982.

Friday, June 14, 2024

HENRY MANCINI

30 years ago, we lost Henry Mancini. (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994)

Gone but his music will live on forever!

My connection with Mancini is by way of the Pink Panther. I spent almost 18 years writing and drawing

THE PINK PANTHER comics for the Spanish speaking market at Novaro Publishers by permission from Western Publishing Co. and DePatie-Freleng.

Main Titles from THE PINK PANTHER

Friday, November 11, 2022

NOVARO: THE MEXICAN COLOSSUS (2017)

Available for a limited time through Amazon's Prime Video:

"Novaro - The Mexican Colossus traces the unknown story behind one of the biggest comic companies in Latin America, Editorial Novaro, its place in the Mexican comic industry, its relation with its consumers and its role in shaping the Mexican middle class".

I was one of several people interviewed in connection to the NOVARO Publishing Company, trying to explain the reasons behind its sudden bankruptcy and eventual disappearance.

I spent about 13 years of my adult life writing and drawing the PINK PANTHER & BEEP BEEP, THE ROAD RUNNER comics as well as a short lived comic of my own creation called EL MAFIOSO NICK.

The 2017 documentary, actually filmed in 2013, examines the influence NOVARO had on several generations of readers from Mexico down to Uruguay, Peru and the rest of Latin America during the nearly four decades it dominated the comic book market, printing mostly material from the U.S. but also generating a few locally produced titles. The documentary offers some theories about NOVARO's sudden demise and explores the collectibles phenomenon it triggered during its peak years.

This is the link to PRIME VIDEO which will be active for a limited time:

https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0GUT26IG56MHV26JAE6UCWRSWM/ref=atv_wl_hom_c_unkc_1_1